Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Bloomsbury, Gloomsbury

Hoping for a good laugh, I tuned in last night to BBC2's new Bloomsbury Group drama, Life In Squares. Disappointingly, there weren't many laughs, even for a confirmed anti-Bloomsburyite like me, and there were moments when it was almost possible to care about these ridiculous people - well, one or two of them. After all, they were young (except in an alarming flashforward near the end) and much foolishness can be forgiven the young. And of course the cast were by and large a whole heap prettier than the original Bloomsberries... Happily, Sue Limb's gloriously daft Bloomsbury sitcom, Gloomsbury, is still available on the BBC iPlayer. Plenty of good laughs there.
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2 comments:

  1. malty28 July 2015 at 16:53

    A Sackville full of ferrets on heat crosses my mind, Nige. Sassy women and big thinkers, unheard of beyond the Watford Gap, their modern counterpart may be, less the heat, the Bennett, Greer and Miller threesome.

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  2. Nige29 July 2015 at 10:24

    Now there's an image... Thanks Malty!

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